Artiom Skipor Skipor itibaren Shyamgarh, Rajasthan 335051, India itibaren Shyamgarh, Rajasthan 335051, India

This is a beautiful, strange, and thoughtful book that incorporates ontological issues about what it means to record (visual, audio, and otherwise). Told via a diary of a misanthropic escapee, it took me a while to get used to the structure, largely due to the shifts between past and present. (I suppose I'm hung up on this because I've been reading and writing a lot in Spanish this past semester.) At the same time, its structure gives this book a life that could not have been achieved in any other way, hearkening back to travelogues of conquistadors. This life is also felt in the multitude of interpretations within it, but I don't want to write them here--it's definitely something best discussed one on one, to be discovered in a non-text form.